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THE APPROACH TO AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA HOMESTEAD Frontispiece 
A Woman’s Two-YEAr-OLp Harpy GARDEN FROM SEEDS ...By Adaline Thomson 83 
FURNITURE OF OuR ForErATHERS—Early Georgian. Part II By Esther Singleton 86 
A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IN THE SUBURB OF NEW YoRK CITY, 
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PLANNING A Pouttry House By James J. Newland 
CHICKS AND THE CAMERA By Carine Cadby 
HANDICRAFTSMAN—How to Make a Japanese Lantern of Concrete, 
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MEPROPRIALE WIOTHORS FORTHE FLOME 0°... 4 60s sae oes By Dorothy Tuke Priestman 
A PLANTING TABLE OF THE Best ANNUALS, PERENNIALS, SHRUBS AND VEGETABLES, 
By Charles Downing Lay 
PLANTING A Frost DeryinG FLowreR GARDEN By I. M. Angell 
SEEDS AND THEIR PLANTING By M. Roberts Conover 
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The Fditor’s Note Book New Books Correspondence 
Breeding Successful Strains of Basket Willows American Homes and Gardens for April 
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